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Fires & bushfires, 1954

2,483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 125

Babies in Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Mon. (D.M.W.C.). -- Fifteen babies less than 12 days old were rescued from a…

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Babies in Fire

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Mon. (D.M. W.C.). --Fifteen babies less than 12 days old were rescued from a…

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Babies snatched from fire

The Sun · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.--Fifteen babies, the eldest nine days, were…

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Car Catches Fire: Two Burnt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 5

Two men were burnt, one seriously, when a car they were repairing caught fire yesterday afternoon in…

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Television To Spot Bushfires From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK, April l8. —The Louisiana State Forestry Commission this week announced that it had…

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Gallant Rescue Bid Blaze claims 9 babies

The Sun · Tuesday 20 April 1954 · page 17

LONDON, Tuesday.--Nine of 15 new babies taken from a blazing maternity hospital at Reading on Sunday night died by last night…

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15 Babies Rescued From Fire; Five Die

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 April 1954 · page 1

LONDON, April 19 (A.A.P.).—Five of 15 babies rescued early yesterday from a burning nursery in a…

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'Bug' blamed for fires

The Sun · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A firebug is blamed for a fire that gutted the…

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Textile Factory Damaged in Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 10

Brigadesmen early today evacuated 30 people from fire-threatened homes. Women and children huddled in…

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Fire Destroys Factory; £10,000 Loss

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 1

Fire early this morning gutted a two-storey factory and store in Systrum Street, Ultimo, and caused damage…

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Hot walls give fire alarm 70 Flee Homes

The Sun · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 15

Tenement dwellers in Systrum St., Ultimo, fled from their homes today when a factory fire made housewalls hot and burst windows…

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Cronulla Fire Brigade

The Observer · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 2

Over the past few months much activity has been noticed by the locals at the Fire Station, with the various Firemen coming…

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"Holy Fire" In Europe, Asia

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 7

LOURDES, France.— The "holy fire" to be blessed here on May 1 and to be taken by…

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Explosion As Fire Destroys Factory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 7

A man staggered from a blazing factory in Illawarra Road, Undercliffe, yesterday into a nearby shop,…

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Fight to save 2 babies Fire Pmama

The Sun · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

LONDON, Thursday. -- Doctors are making a round-the-clock fight to save the two remaining baby victims of the Reading Maternity Home fire on…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting, benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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147 Died When Fire-trap "Sweat Shop" Locked Vital Escape Door New York's Triangle Fire Disaster

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 23

SEVEN hundred girls and a handful of men toiled at cutting benches and sewing machines in New York's biggest clothing factory at the top of a ten-storey building in Manhattan one March Saturday in…

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